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acquired immune deficiency syndrome or aids started as an exclusively gay disease this depression of the immune system can lead to a rare form of cancer capacity sarcoma which shows up as those purplish spots this cancer has a death rate of eighty percent two years after diagnosis aids also causes unusual infections with death rates of a hundred percent in two years this is not a benign disease nor is it limited to gays as we are now finding out so far 75 percent of cases are homosexuals but fourteen percent are heterosexual drug addicts five percent are non-drug-using heterosexuals with no other risk factors five percent are haitian refugees and one percent are hemophiliacs who presumably caught it from blood transfusions females who are partners of male drug addicts can get the disease and also infants of female drug addicts what do we know so far aids appears to be a virus transmitted through blood semen saliva and other body secretions there is a blood test for the disease a study of the gay population in new york came up with some horrifying figures has been done in new york and they found that as many as 85 percent of otherwise healthy gay men showed evidence of imbalance in these in these tests of the of the immune system we suspect from from our experience here that that we would find a similar similar finding given the incubation period of two years there could be a major epidemic in the near future do you suspect that it's possible that this disease could be spreading from the gay population in san francisco to non-gays in san francisco and then on to other cities i suspect it is spreading and i suspect it will continue to to spread to to other areas of the country and walking around the hospital today and talking to doctors and nurses one gets a feeling that there is some fear among health professionals here about contracting this disease themselves special precautions are now beginning to be applied to hospital personnel handling aids patients for instance gloves are worn when drawing blood although san francisco general does not require gowns and masks in handling aids patients the center for disease control in atlanta is now recommending that precaution to protect doctors and nurses there's a lot of anxiety all of us that are taking care of the patients go through go through periods of personal anxiety but about getting the disease we don't know what we're dealing with and we don't know how it's spread one major question raised is the safety of blood transfusions the test for aids costs 160 dollars requiring it on all donors would make blood prohibitively expensive some have suggested not allowing gays to donate blood but of course non-gays can have the disease also what about the new hepatitis b vaccine it's made from the blood of gay men its safety is now being questioned my understanding is it's...